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The brainwashing will continue

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Regardless of whether or not morale improves.

Taxpayer-funded trans dolls with removable genitalia to hit classrooms this fall for kids as young as 4 to ‘learn about different options’
They’re dolling up the trans agenda — and taxpayers are footing the bill.

“First-of-their-kind” transgender dolls — complete with removable genitalia — will debut in some Minnesota classrooms this fall to kids as young as 4 years old.

The paper dolls, with gender-neutral names like “Sam,” “Rory,” “Avery” and “Parker,” have removable internal and external genitals, along with more than 100 interchangeable pieces of clothing, accessories and hairstyles — like a trans Mr./Mrs. Potato Head.

he goal is for kids to “learn about the different options that exist for who they can be,” according to a therapist at the University of Minnesota Medical School, which spent over half a decade developing the controversial project funded by lefty Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Mighta knowed that doughboy swish would figure into this horseshit somewhere.
The trans dolls — which promise to “make gender fun” — will be made available to teachers, school counselors, pediatricians and mental health providers, according to a website of the “MyGender Dolls” company. It features an image of a boy doll wearing a dress and others in various states of sexual identity confusion.

It’s not known whether parents — or children themselves — will be able to order a doll, or if they will only be marketed to professionals and schools. It is not known if parents will be able to opt out of such “therapeutic play” for their kids.

Of COURSE they won’t. That would be racist, sexist, fascist, and homophobic. H888RRRR.

“They will find anybody who’s in trouble and use this as a tool to say, ‘this is why you’re unhappy.’ This is absolutely grooming,” slammed Dr. Quentin Van Meter, past president of the American College of Pediatricians.

“The younger kids — many of them still believe in the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. And you’re then presenting them with paper dolls that kind of look fun, and you can change clothing, hair, genitals… It’s well beyond their ability to sort out fantasy from reality.”

When reached by The Post, a university spokesperson claimed no public funds were used “to support MyGender Dolls’ commercialization efforts.”

But when pressed on how much taxpayer money went to research and development of the dolls, and to the salaries of the professors involved in the project, the university refused to answer, telling The Post instead to file a freedom of information request.

Walz’s office did not return The Post’s request for comment.

Yeah, I just bet not.

“That’s just common sense”

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Indeed it is. No wonder the shitlibs are so violently, viciously opposed to it.


“Errors”

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As I always say: when all the “errors” only seem to cut one way, to the advantage of one side of the argument exclusively, then they aren’t really errors at all. So it’s strange indeed (not to mention puzzling as all hell) that this should be somethig of a counter-example.

Scientists Discover Major Errors in Al Gore-Founded Climate Pollution Database
An analysis found that Climate TRACE may substantially underestimate city vehicle CO2 emissions, raising concerns about data accuracy in climate policy.

Some of the world’s most widely used climate emissions estimates could be missing far more pollution than anyone realized.

A new study from Northern Arizona University reports that the global greenhouse gas emissions database created by the Climate TRACE consortium, co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, may be undercounting vehicle carbon dioxide emissions in cities by an average of 70%.

The findings, published in Environmental Research Letters, come as governments and cities increasingly rely on high-resolution emissions data to shape climate policy and track progress toward emissions goals.

Led by Kevin Gurney, a professor in NAU’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS), the study examined how Climate TRACE estimated emissions from cars and trucks and compared those figures against established transportation and fuel-use data. According to Gurney, the discrepancies — combined with similar issues his team previously identified in power plant emissions estimates — raise broader concerns about the reliability of rapidly emerging AI-driven climate monitoring systems.

“Given the importance of vehicle CO2 emissions in cities, we carefully examined the Climate TRACE data which relied on promising new artificial intelligence-based approaches,” Gurney said. “When combined with our previous study on Climate TRACE power plant CO2 emissions, our results suggest that the Climate TRACE data significantly underestimate over half of U.S. fossil fuel-based CO2 emissions in cities.”

Via Insty.

Big Government: It’s scams, all the way down

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Change my mind.

The Ivanpah Solar Power Plant, a sprawling 3,500–acre facility in the Mojave Desert near the California–Nevada border, was built with federal support during the stimulus push under Barack Obama’s first administration. The power plant was meant to help revive the American economy after the 2008 financial crisis, while also expanding renewable energy. It features about 350,000 computer-controlled mirrors to go alongside three imposing 459-foot towers. The sun’s power heats water in the towers’ boilers and makes steam, which then creates electricity. Between $730 million and $780 million of a $1.6 billion government–backed loan tied to the project remained unpaid, according to federal data cited by Fox News Digital. The US Treasury also provided a $539 million grant for the project, which covered roughly 30 percent of construction costs. The only thing it has done successfully since it’s inception is to fry birds in flight. Some estimates say at least 6,000 birds per year have met their demise in the magnified sunlight frying pan. Well played, treehuggers…

Know what’s REALLY sad here? That I can’t honestly say that this jug-eared, slope-shouldered chowderhead—Ogabe, in other words—was the worst President this country ever had.

The libertarian (small-L) creed

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Having gone deep down another YewToob rabbit hole tonight, this one Firefly/Serenity-related, I just gotta post (repost, actually) this immortal clip wherein Captain Mal Reynolds nails it all down clean and tight.

Never have been able to figure out how it is that Joss Whedon could’ve written such dead-on dialogue as is on proud display throughout Firefly and Serenity both—about as anti-collectivist as it’s possible to be—yet could still be a goddamned standard-issue liberal moron his own self.

As Jayne says of another character in another scene, Mal is seriously starting to damage my calm here. Simply because he’s right: no matter how badly they screw up, how utterly they fail, snd/or how many lives they destroy along the way, they willl most assuredly try again. They will never stop trying again, whatever the consequences—not just for them, but for all of us. This, after all, is just who they are, it’s what they do.

Breakthrough!

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     I was greatly gratified by this:

     Lee Zeldin left a CNN host staring blankly for nearly two minutes on Monday as he took her apart regarding a recent proposal at the EPA. As the interview started, host Kasie Hunt dumped an attempted gotcha question on the EPA administrator, asking him if he accepts the “overwhelming scientific consensus” that greenhouse gas emissions drive “man-made climate change.” That was in the context of a recent announcement that the Trump administration will revoke a 2009 endangerment finding that led to the implementation of stringent regulations.
     Zeldin clearly came prepared, because he peppered Hunt with facts, and for once, a CNN host couldn’t come up with a reason to interrupt a Republican.

     Here’s the video of the event:

     I know I’ve said it before, but just one more time:

Science Is Not Done By Consensus!

     Yet that’s what the warmistas, overt or covert, would have you believe. Why?

     It’s a simple matter, really. “Global warming / climate change” is a fraud, but it’s a useful fraud: i.e., it’s useful to the Left, which seeks more power over you. As there is absolutely no evidence that human activity is causing global mean temperatures to rise – as there is absolutely no evidence that global mean temperatures are rising! – the fraud must be buttressed with something other than evidence. What remains once evidence is omitted? Consensus! That is, prevalent opinion.

     But how is such a “consensus” to be fabricated in the face of the facts? By data manipulation, data selection, sleight-of-hand, and – above all – bribery. Note how frequently the temperature records of past centuries have been “adjusted.” Note how temperature monitoring stations have steadily moved toward “heat islands.” Note how inconvenient data have been excluded from consideration. Note how “models” – the technical term is simulations — are presented as if they constitute sources of evidence. And note how government grants, and the favoritism of prestigious scientific periodicals, are lent to the “global warming / climate change” cause.

     When I was in academia, this sort of thing would bring the contempt of other researchers down on the rascals’ heads in a torrent. Clearly, with the preponderance of research funding coming directly from Washington, and the Left having infiltrated of the periodicals so deeply, it’s no longer so.

     Francis Collins, whose blog I can no longer find, commented in the abstract on the Left’s pattern in fomenting “crises:”

  1. Something must be done,
  2. This is something.
  3. Therefore, we must do this.

Of course, that first step – persuading the public that there’s a crisis in town and that therefore, “something must be done,” is a doozy. But the Left has many old hands who are adept at whipping up the necessary hysteria over nothing. Consensus, real or imagined, is also useful in engendering widespread fear. After all, if “leading scientists” are telling us that there’s something to fear, maybe we should get to it!

     More thoughts on the warmista scam can be found here. As a fillip to jaded tastes, Cold Fury’s Gentle Readers might enjoy this article. (It’s paywalled, so contact me if you want a copy.) Also, Richard Dreyfuss’s wonderful old movie The Big Fix, from a novel by Roger Simon, has an interesting bit to say about the kinship between political agitation and advertising, through Supporting Cast character Howard Eppis.

Working as intended

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Careful what you wish for, CullyFahnya shitlibs, lest you get it—all you want, plus some.

 

West Coast, Messed Coast™– Holy Environy! Newsom Desperately Tries to Sell Refinery He Helped Close
In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom is desperately trying to find a buyer for an oil refinery that he and his policies were instrumental in shooing from the state. Newsom’s policies have driven multiple refineries out of the state. Valero Oil has given up and plans to close a San Francisco-area refinery in 2026.

“California’s effort to save the refinery from closing also marks a shift from the focus of government policy in recent years to champion green initiatives and restrict fossil fuel usage, that has led to an often tense relationship between the state and oil companies,” Reuters reports.

Valero plans to completely close down in 2026. California had 40 refineries in the 1980s. The recently announced closures will leave as few as seven refineries operational by 2026.

West Coast, Messed Coast™ residents are finding out in real time, if they hadn’t known already, that high gas prices weren’t only the product of greedy oil companies and plundering gas station owners, as Democrats have told them all these years. 

“High gas prices?! We’ll pass a law to investigate these scallywags!” 

California’s gas prices are “42.2% higher than the national average, 40.7% higher than Arizona, 20% higher than Nevada, 46.86% higher than Florida, and a whopping 63.12% higher than Texas.” It’s not a good look when you want to win your party’s nomination to be president of the free world.

It turns out that when your environmental policies force the closure of multiple oil refineries cranking out homegrown gas, you are forced to import more expensive gas. It has the side effect of making you look really dumb, Gavin Newsom. Worse, it makes the other states that follow California’s environmental lead — looking at you, Oregon and Washington — look even dumber.

 

Ummm, s’cuse me and all, but, y’know… “LOOK”?!?

Trust Teh Science™, baybee!

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Actual science, that is.

Ummm…ooooops. Oops, oops, oopsie! ‘Kay, so who wants to explain how all this works to this poor, pitiful freak and his/her/its mentally-disturbed Significant Other, anyhoo? Not me, I’m staying right the hell out of this one. Damn pesky “Y” chromosomes, always popping up at the most inconvenient possible moments this way.

“Accommodations for trans people,” no less. Sorry and all, but I’m afraid we’ve all seen WAY too much of that sort of thing by now as it is. Thanks for appearing in our broadcast studios with us today on The Science Doesn’t Lie, though. As a consolation, all contestants who fail to advance to the next round will receive the home version of our game, along with a gift certificate good for one (1) month’s delivery of delicious Domino’s Pizza, completely free of charge. Again: thanks for playing, everyone!

Buncha clowns, clowning around

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Our old blog-bud Ken Layne has posted the coolest friggin’ GIF you’re ever gonna see; hopefully it’ll work properly over here as well, although if it doesn’t, don’t hate me ‘cause I’m beautiful, y’all. If not, you can always check out the original here, number 5.

Send in the clowns, there ought to be clowns

Now THAT’s what I call a RODEO, bubba!

Update! Nope, no joy, looks like; just a static image instead of an auto-repeating animation like it’s s’posed to be. Ah well, go check it out at Ken’s joint, you’ll be glad you did.

Wait, whut?

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Fart rape? Now we’re all supposed to be all concerned and het up about FART RAPE, of all the cockamamie…?

Sorry ladies, y’all are gonna have to peddle that crapola someplace else. Ain’t no market for it over here, I’m afraid.

Y’know, time was you’d see some absurdity like this and could safely assume it was the work of a random prankster having a laugh at the opposition’s expense. Nowadays, though, the Left has gone so completely bugfuck nuts you can’t do that anymore. Sad, right?

(Via CederQ)

The “Health” Racket

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I must say I was kinda surprised to read Steyn’s take on all this. It wasn’t quite what I would’ve expected from him, although perhaps I should’ve.

I rejoice in the confirmation of RFK Jr as the US Secretary of Health and Human Services (no thanks to longtime Chinese asset Mitch McConnell). “Make America Healthy Again” is the indispensable component of “Make America Great Again” – because the most obvious sign of what’s gone wrong in the country is to take a walk down any main street. No one would bet the future on a country that has debauched its human capital the way the United States has.

As Bobby Kennedy pointed out on The Mark Steyn Show, Americans are the most medicated people on the planet and are the unhealthiest in the developed world; in particular, as RFK also noted on our show, our children are the world’s most medicated children, and have accelerating rates of childhood obesity, childhood diabetes, childhood heart disease. A grade-school diagnosis of diabetes can take up to two decades off your lifespan.

So what’s the answer? Further enriching Blue Cross-Blue Shield? Americans pay more for health care than anybody else, and have lousier outcomes, starting with the most basic indicator of all – life expectancy: According to the UN, from the Swiss to the Australians, the list of peoples that enjoy an extra half-decade of life over Americans lengthens year on year. In the 2023 UN rankings, the United States comes in at Number Fifty-Five on the life-expectancy Hit Parade; for purposes of comparison, Albania – where the men smoke seventy a day and accessing the health-care system requires swimming to Italy – is at Fifty-Three. By 2022 America’s annual spending on health care was twelve-and-a-half grand per capita; Albania’s was under five hundred bucks – which is less than your co-pay on a Covid anal swab; the word “co-pay” does not exist in Albanian.

Four years ago, we first had RFK Jr on the show mainly because no one else wants to talk about this. If you’re wondering why, it’s because his late friend Roger Ailes, of Fox News, told him that in non-election years three-quarters of Fox’s ad revenue comes from Big Pharma.

Five years ago, the state and the pharmaceutical companies joined forces for an unprecedented experiment on you – to damage almost every aspect of daily life, including even more damage to a generation of children. There has yet to be an accounting for that.

And THAT’s what really stings about this, at least for me. Although admittedly, the only way We The Peepul will ever get an accounting is to r’are up on our hind legs at long, long last and demand one. Not “request” one; not ask politely for one; not hold a referendum and vote on whether or not we’d like to have one at some later, unspecified date; but straight-up remind our “public servants” of their proper place in the grand scheme of things, get ‘em skeered and keep the skeer on ‘em, and inform them in no uncertain terms that there is by God going to be one, or we’re gonna damned well know the reason why not. T’was ever thus, ain’t nothing whatsoever new.

More, and even worserer:

I was also glad to see, in the above clip, RFK trash USAid, which was after all founded by his uncle. As noted earlier this week, it’s now a near parodic example of the racket that the federal government has made of everything it touches. According to the above-mentioned Daily Telegraph, Trump has only been in office for three weeks but he’s already killing grannies:

US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off

Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital.

This story is by Sarah Newey, the Telegraph’s “Global Health Security Correspondent” in Bangkok. In my day, the Telegraph didn’t have a “Global Health Security Correspondent” in Bangkok or anywhere else. It’s not funded by USAid, is it?

Oxygen isn’t really that expensive. A member of the Steyn team required it at an event in Colorado a couple of years back. It certainly isn’t that expensive if you’re the “International Rescue Committee” and have revenues of over a billion dollars per annum. Of course, like everyone else on the take from USAid, the International Rescue Committee pisses away a lot of its dough. It pays its president, David Milliband, over a million bucks a year. No, not Ed Milliband, the talentless prat who serves as His Majesty’s Secretary of State for Net Zero. This is his brother, David, the talentless prat who was British Foreign Secretary back in the Gordon Brown era and parlayed that into a seven-figure salary with this IRC racket. As I always say, the “non-profits” are where the big bucks are.

The racket goes on. Uniparty warmonger Victoria Nuland was last heard of on The Mark Steyn Show warning that the zillions of US-funded biolabs in Ukraine could easily fall into Russian hands. Why are American taxpayers outsourcing gain-of-function to Kharkiv and Odessa? Well, they’re world-renowned experts in developing a new strain of monkeypox with fewer homophobic overtones…

The good news is that the all-war-all-the-time queen, who’s even more bloodsoaked than David Milliband, has just been appointed to the board of the “National Endowment for Democracy”. Ms Nuland is an expert in democracy, having ended it in Ukraine. “NED” was founded back in the Eighties, at taxpayer expense, to “export the American way of governance” – so that every nation may enjoy the blessings of paying former foreign parliamentarians a seven-figure salary to kill l’il ol’ ladies.

That’s the point. Whether you’re a Thai gran’ma, a Ukrainian infantryman or a New Hampshire grade-schooler, Nuland-Milliband-Big Pharma government is killing you. I wish RFK and the other Trump 47-iconoclasts all the best.

As should we all, whether we find Trump’s personal swashbuckling, over the top style grating or not.

SICK!!!

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No, these lunatics are most certainly NOT okay.


Your obligatory “Show more…” end-run.

At a protest against Trump’s executive orders targeting child mutilation procedures on minors, Actress Cynthia Nixon reveals that:

-Her daughter is transgender

-Her niece is transgender

-Her best friend’s child is transgender

-Her daughter’s best friend is transgender

-Her life is filled with transgender people, “young and old, but especially young.”

President Trump is saving American children from one of the most destructive social contagions in human history.

That’s about the size of it, yeah. Back into the closet with you, you depraved freaks. There’s something very, very wrong with people like Nixon, and I’m at a loss as to whether they can ever be fixed and made whole again. Not that they’d ever allow any such attempt to be made, of course.

Dems double down on depravity

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“Standing up for the rights of families,” for the first time in recorded history.

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes took his book tour to HBO and Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, where he urged Democrats to double down on telling Republicans to “just stay the fuck out of their business” when it comes to parents wanting to give their children gender-altering “health care.”

Maher had just finished lamenting that the recent forum for the DNC chair election, complete with a land acknowledgment and other progressive cringe-inducing antics, showed the party hasn’t learned anything when Hayes replied, “I think that, I don’t think there’s anyone who hasn’t had a moment across the political spectrum of some form of progressive communication that’s either left them bewildered or a little like ‘Eh, I don’t know about that,’ but at the same time, there is a message of what I would call common sense patriotic pluralism. That is a majority message.”

No, what you ACTUALLY have there, Chris, is an incomprehensible word salad, exactly the sort of bafflegab you dirty swine throw in Normal faces when you don’t want them to catch on to what you really mean underneath the gobbledegook.

The first example he reached for was, “If some father and mother have health care for their kid lined up, who is trans, just stay the fuck out of their business. Like, and let them make that decision. That’s their decision to make. You don’t have to make that for your family. I’m not going to tell you what to do with your family.”

Maher pushed back, “I mean, but the argument is whether the child should make the decision.”

Hayes strained credibility to add, “But the child is never making the decision. The parents are always making the decision. Parents consent to medical care.”

Eventually, Maher would add, “They would say it’s disfiguring a child.”

Hayes was unmoved, “I think they should mind their business; I really do. I think they should mind their business, and I think that’s true about a lot of things.”

Ironically enough, that’s precisely what the rest of us have been trying to tell your criminal organization masquerading as a political party for decades now, only to have you ignore us and go right on as before. As Ed helpfully points out, this would seem to be a policy volte face for PMSDNC, although I do NOT recommend anybody rush out to bet money on it.

In 2013 the network ran ads that their parent company Comcast-signed off in which the message was explicitly stated that “your kids are not your own.” Last year, Kamala chose a veep, who, as the Daily Caller noted, “Greenlit Law Allowing State To Take Child Custody From Parents Who Oppose Sex-Change Surgeries.” Now that there’s a Republican in the White House who doesn’t want to see them mutilated before they can consent as an adult to procedures that could permanently alter them, Hayes responds, “just stay the f**k out of [the parents’] business!” Past performance, etc.

Why, one might almost think that the shitlib stance on the rights of families, if any, hinges on whether or not the “transgender” religion is involved.

Carbon fact vs fiction

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Originally intended to run this meme in tomorrow’s Memezapoppin’ edition, but it merits its own main-page post, I think.

Telling, no? Now, I just happen to know right offhand what the amount of CO2 in Earth’s mostly nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere is: a whopping .03 percent. Or .04%, depending on who or what the source is. That being so, the contention that even quadrupling or quintupling it would have any noticeable affect on life as we know it looks even more absurd than it already did. Therefore I commend to your attention another of Mike’s Iron Laws, #149 this time.

Update! Man oh man, those MILs sure have come in mighty useful, haven’t they? Makes me damned pleased and proud I came up with the idea, I must say. The way things are going, looks like I’ll have reasons aplenty to add a bunch of new ones in the days ahead. Reminds me that I have another post I’ve been working on that I really need to finish and get up which in its way reinforces the notion of this websty being a fairly decent resource.

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